ful season in school history. The No. 3 seeded Aggies advance to the sec-ond round of the NCAA tournament for the sixth consecutive season, facing off against the No. 6 seed Nebraska on Monday night at Reed Arena.

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thebatt.comBiggest EventDespite scattered showers and cold weather, more than 17,500 students, the most to date, volunteered at the 31st annual Big Event on Saturday. Students gathered to perform community service to thank the Bryan-College Station community. This year’s Big Event featured 200 more tasks to be completed than in 2012 in addition to a yell to “BTHO the cold” by the newly elected yell leaders.

A major auto accident Saturday killed Nathan Hard-castle, sophomore ecological restoration major, and

Taylor Leonard, 19, who was visiting from Houston.According to the College Station Police Department,

Hardcastle, Leonard and five others were exiting a private drive on Harvey Mitchell Parkway north of Holleman around 9:50 p.m. in a 2008 Dodge truck when they were hit on the driver side by a 2006 Dodge, which had a sole occupant.

All seven occupants were rushed to the hospital. Hard-castle was pronounced dead 45 minutes after the accident while several others were said to be in critical condition. Leonard, the driver of the 2008 Dodge, was pronounced dead Sunday at 7:24 p.m., authorities said.

Tucker Shroyer, junior agri-cultural economics major, said he has been friends with Hard-castle since the third grade and is his fraternity brother in Alpha Gamma Rho, the national agri-culture fraternity at Texas A&M.

“I can honestly say that I have never once seen Nathan frown,” Shroyer said. “He was a caring individual who always had a smile on his face. He was an honest guy with a lot of integrity.”

Fraternity president Jody Har-ris said Hardcastle will be missed.

“Nathan was one of those real goofy guys who you loved to be

around,” Harris said. “He had a really positive outlook on life.”

The College Station Police Department said in a news release that other occupants of the vehicle driv-en by Leonard sustained injuries and several remain in critical condition.

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Crowd boosts tourney winA&M drops Wichita State, faces Nebraska

Reed Arena gave the Texas A&M women’s basketball team a certain level of comfort Sat-

urday in a 71-45 win over the Wichita State Shockers in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The 7,225 fans — the most in at-tendance of any of the eight Saturday NCAA women’s basketball tournament sites — gave the Aggies a boost helped secure a win.

“Having the support and a lot of peo-ple’s family and friends there, on your home court, who wouldn’t like being at home in one of the biggest tourna-ment games of the season? We’re one step closer to New Orleans,” said junior center Karla Gilbert.

Texas A&M (25-9), competing in its eighth consecutive NCAA tournament, found its rhythm against Wichita State late in the first half, closing out the pe-riod with a 16-2 run to take a 13-point lead. The Aggies’ momentum rolled into the second half with an early 12-2 surge.

A&M senior forward Kristi Bellock tied her career high with 18 points, going 9-for-12 from the field with six rebounds and two assists. Freshman guard Courtney Williams contributed 11 points along with six rebounds and four assists.

“When you start talking about the way [Bellock] can push the ball in tran-sition, or the way she runs the floor, she can stretch defenses as well,” said junior center Kelsey Bone. “It is exciting to play with her. When she is clicking on all cylinders we are a hard team to beat.”

Bone added 10 points, all of which came in the second half after foul trouble sent her to the bench in the first.

For Wichita State (24-10), the loss cut short its first NCAA tournament appearance and ends the most success-

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Junior center Kelsey Bone takes a fadeaway jumpshot during Texas A&M’s 71-45 NCAA first round tournament victory over Wichita State.

Saturday auto crash kills two, injures five

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Jewish community prepares for commemorative holiday

DA drops charges against Bryan woman

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The smell bubbling up from pots on a stove car-ries from the kitchen, while the steady rhythm

of a knife chopping carrots provides a tempo for the crowd busily preparing the approaching feast.

Sundown of the 15th day of the month of Nis-san — which corresponds this year to sundown of March 25 — marks the beginning of Passover. Pass-over, a Jewish holiday that takes place through eight days (seven days in Israel), commemorating the exo-dus of the Jewish people out of Egypt and is notably marked by differences in dietary laws.

Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff of the Rohr Chabad Jew-ish Student and Community Center explained the historical and spiritual significance of the holiday.

“Passover is a holiday, otherwise known as pesach in Hebrew,” Lazaroff said. “It commemo-rates the exodus of Egypt where the Jewish people were slaves and God took us out and set us free. But as part of the biblical element of the exodus, Pass-over is commemorating this concept of freedom, celebrating freedom.”

Members of the Jewish faith traditionally ob-serve dietary laws, but during Passover these laws become more restrictive. Kenny Abitbol, a sophomore nuclear engineering major, described these restrictions.

“We can’t eat chametz, which is the leavened bread and anything that it’s made out of,” Abitbol said. “Now, we normally can’t eat most things, be-

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Criminal charges against Brittany

Henderson — a Bry-an woman arrested in connection with a bomb threat at Texas State University — have been dropped by the Hays County District Attorney’s office, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Two days after au-thorities took Hen-derson into custody, the FBI arrested her ex-boyfriend De-reon Kelley, who now faces federal felony charges for the Oct. 18 Texas State bomb threat and the Oct. 19 Texas A&M bomb threat.

Henderson, 19, is a former student at Texas State and was arrested on three counts of making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony and three counts of making a false alarm or report, a Class A misdemeanor, and spent more than a month in jail.

Fred Weber, Hays County assistant dis-trict attorney, said the charges against Hen-derson were dropped because there was not sufficient evidence to proceed with the case.

John Quinn, Henderson’s attorney, said Henderson was “hugely happy” the charges were dropped. According to the Austin American-Statesman, Quinn said they plan to meet next week to discuss whether to pursue a lawsuit related to the case.

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Manya Lazaroff (right) and other volunteers help prepare one of the meals for Passover on Sunday afternoon at Rohr Chabad Jewish student and community center.

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Annual AggieCon attracts authors, costumed fans

From students dressed as “Doctor Who” to “Game

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According to many con-goers, Saturday was a busy convention day due largely to the involvement of George R.R. Martin, the author of “A Song of Ice and Fire.” Fans of the series, which in-spired the TV show “Game of Thrones,” even came dressed as characters from the story, complete with dragons perched on their shoulders, to show their dedication and support.

In addition to Martin’s “A Game of Thrones”-themed signing and Q-and-A session, other guests included Ernest Cline, author of “Ready Player One,” comic artist Sam de la Rosa, “Surviv-ing the World” writer Dante Shepard and author of “The Pyramid Waltz,” Barbara Ann Wright.

“The most fun part of Ag-gieCon this year was running around, surprisingly enough,” said Amber Passen, sopho-more general studies major. “I had to make sure the guests got picked up from their flights, that they drove to the right place, that they knew what was going on with the schedule. All of that was busy, but this was a lot of fun.”

The vendors, art auction and costume-play contest generated attention through-

out the weekend. Different panels were held, on writing and costuming techniques, along with gaming discus-sions and readings of different works.

“This year’s AggieCon was absolutely huge compared to last year’s,” said Sarah Le-may, sophomore mechanical engineering major. “I think it definitely matched up to ConDFW.”

AggieCon, College Sta-tion’s own sci-fi and fantasy convention, is organized an-nually by Cepheid Variable. Cepheid Variable is a sci-fi and fantasy organization that began in 1969 and draws to-gether fans of mediums such as comic books, movies and television shows.

“It’s the biggest sci-fi group on campus,” Passen said. “We organize student events that have to do with fantasy, sci-fi, comics, books — anything you can ‘nerd-out’ about. We take trips to nuclear reactors and Lego stores, just geek things.”

Carleen DeArmon, senior English major and director of operations for AggieCon, said most of her job this year has involved communicating with the Hilton, the hotel that hosted the event, and making sure that both staff and guests understood what goes on at the convention.

DeArmon said the purpose of the convention was to bring people with the same interests together.

“We want to make sure ev-eryone feels like they belong somewhere,” DeArmon said.

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“It’s been crazy this year, especially with George R.R. Martin as a guest,” DeAr-mon said. “It’s gotten really hectic.”

DeArmon said much of Cepheid Variable’s growth materialized from a love of a welcoming atmosphere and meeting new people. She said it is one of the things that makes AggieCon a little different from most conven-tions.

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say they prefer our con be-cause it’s more personal,” DeArmon said.

AggieCon has grown from a modest gathering to a heav-ily attended comic conven-tion.

“The first AggieCon was kind of accidental,” DeAr-mon said. “We had a relative-ly big name come in for our SciFi week, and a few people referred to it as AggieCon 1. Since then, it’s become our yearly tradition.”

Sam de la Rosa, an artist of the Marvel character “Venom,” works on new artwork at AggieCon 44.

cause it’s made out of certification. Now it goes even beyond that — anything that’s made in a factory, any of that stuff we can’t eat from unless it has its supervi-sion symbol on it.”

Matzah, unleaved bread made from flour and water, is consumed throughout the celebration. It is also referred to as bread of faith or bread of healing.

Not only can leavened food prod-ucts not be consumed, they are not even seen.

“Part of the Biblical commandment is not only the eating of the matzah on Passover, but also to remove any leav-ened products in one’s home, which is any type of wheat, barley, things like that,” Lazaroff said. “It’s not only about eating, it’s also not seeing it or finding it, which ultimately means cleaning up the house, clean it very well because you’re not allowed to own it, you’re not allowed to have it in your home during the Pass-over.”

The entire house also must be cleaned, with special attention paid to the kitchen. Utensils and equipment that have been used throughout the year must be cleaned

or put away for Passover. “Not using leavened products, that’s a

big part of the job, you talk about taking a week or two just to prepare for Pass-over and get the place ready,” Lazaroff said. “Even your oven is used for leav-ened products, we have to Kosher the oven, which means cleaning it out well and heating it. The ones that are not self-cleaning, you need to use a blow-torch and things like that. I have a whole separate Passover oven. I have a whole separate kitchen, in a sense, that I use for Passover.”

Not only can the cleaning be a time-consuming process, but preparing meals can also prove to be a challenge due to the restricted dietary laws. Matzah, which can be consumed throughout the holiday, can be transformed in a variety of ways, is used for matzah ball soup and even pizza.

“Passover is actually a very funny holi-day, because it’s a time where the indi-vidual gourmet chefs shine,” Abitbol said. “The average Joe can’t make all these cre-ative ideas for food.”

To assist students who may not have the time or resources to prepare the cor-rect foods for the holiday, the Chabad of-fers a dining program to provide students with lunch and dinner over the eight days of Passover. Seder, which means “order”

and involves a meal, is observed the first two nights and is also provided for stu-dents and community members at the center.

“What we provide at our center for the Texas A&M students is, number one, the Seder itself, but also an entire Passover dining program,” Lazaroff said. “Because being that you’re not allowed to eat leavened products, it’s much more difficult, and you also have to clean your house and Kosher it. It’s a big un-dertaking that a lot of students either don’t have the time for nor the financial means to be able to do that, or the ability of where they’re living in the dorm to do that.”

Justine Berman, freshman Blinn team animal science major, is participating in part of the dining program and cooking some of her own meals. She said the di-etary laws were more than just restrictions on food.

“It really transforms you, because we are basically mimicking their dietary hab-its and needs,” Berman said. “And yes, we are privileged enough to have more a variety of food than they were, but it re-ally helps you get into the spirit and kind of understand a little bit more what they were going through and what they had to do.”

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Horse Lover’s Dream. 3bd/1ba,covered carport on 4acres witpond and horse facilities. Min-utes from TAMU. Recently up-dated all appliances includingW/D. Pet and livestock friendly.Available August. Rent$1399/mo.aggielandrentals.com979-776-8984

Immediate move-in’s andpre-lease fall. Free cable/internet! Spacious 2bd/1ba. Close to cam-pus, on shuttle route. Largekitchen with full appliances. W/Dconnections. Front and back pat-ios. Ceiling fans. Hillstone On TheParkway, 528 Southwest Parkway.979-693-6102. Open 9-4Monday-Friday.hillstoneonthepkwy@yahoo.com

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Newer 1/1, 1/1.5 loft, 2/2, 3/3.Granite, ceramic, w/d, walk-inclosets, cable and internet, shuttle. $820-$1560. Brokerowner 979-777-5477.

Nice! 4/2 2013-Rayburn.$1550/mo. Available Aug1st. CallScott at 979-229-5007.

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Now Leasing and pre-leasing forAugust! 4bdrm/2bth houses. Spa-cious floorplans. Great Location.Close to campus, wood floors, tilefloors, ceiling fans, w/d, fencedyards, refridgerator,icemaker,lawncare.979-776-6079,www.aggielandleasing.com

Now preleasing large 3/2 du-plexes, May-Aug leasing options,off of Holleman, on shuttle, viewduplexes seven days a week,979-774-4575.

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Pre-lease 4 and 5 bedroomhouses, available August, greatfloor plans, close to campus,updated, W/D, all appliances,no pets.www.brazosvalleyrentals.com979-731-8257.

Pre-lease for May or August 2/2Duplex with large fence backyard.Pets ok, walk-in closets, great lo-cation, and shuttle. $775/mo.979-693-1448.

Sub-lease 2bd/1ba. Second floorcorner apartment. $640/mo, onbus route, and pets welcome.Contact (979)777-1308.

Sublease room in 4bd house, Aprilthrough June30th, $350 +utilities,936-499-7183.

Two newer built 5/4’s for lease.Available 8/1. Northgate area!281-814-0665

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Athletic men for calendars,books, etc. $100-$200/hr, upto $1000/day. No experience.aggieresponse@gmail.com

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Cheddar’s and Fish Daddy’s nowaccepting applications. Applywithin, University Dr.

Child Care FT & PT shifts available.Some nights & Saturdays re-quired. Apply in person at 3609 E.29th St., Bryan.

Christopher’s World Grille is nowhiring Waitstaff, ServiceAssistants, Hosts and KitchenStaff. Please apply at5001 Boonville Rd., Bryan.

Cleaning commercial buildingsat night, M-F. Call 979-823-5031for appointment.

Data entry w/excellent computerskills. Part-time, South CollegeStation. 979-574-3910.

Desire: perfect/refine existingWeb/Power Point presentation,$200, 979-574-3145.

Immediate opening. Energetic,high-energy office assistant fortele-marketing and busyreal-estate office. 12:00-5:00pm.Call 979-693-3700 and ask for ext437

King Ranch Turfgrass has immedi-ate part-time opportunities forexperienced farm laborers. Re-sponsibilities include general agri-cultural duties associated withsod farming such as equipmentmaintenance and operation. Forconsideration, call (936)825-6330or apply in person at 28132 TomMoore Rd. Navasota, Texas 77868.EOE/Drug Free Workplace.

Little Guys Movers now hiringFT/PT employees. Must be at least21 w/valid D.L. Apply in person at3209 Earl Rudder Freeway.979-693-6683.

Lochow Exotic Game Ranch partor full time staff. Flexible hourswith school schedules. Must haveexperience with Tractor work.Duties include feeding exoticsand horses, shredding , mowing ,minor equipment maintenance,cleaning up grounds and barns.Must be able to take responsibil-ity for ranch when owner not pre-sent. References. $12 hour in Mi-lano . jlochow@lochowranch.com512-484-1535

Lochow Ranch need horse exer-cise/rider and trainer. Set yourown hours. 8 horses total . Rein-ing horses all sired by worldchampions. Basic training on 22month old colt. Regular Groom-ing , work with ferrier and vet.$50 half day $100 for full day ,Milanojlochow@lochowranch.com512-484-1535

Looking to hire highly skilled webcreator and graphics designer.Send in resume to myoung@gate-waygamer.com with previouswork attached. Call 512-567-2480for more information.

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Need someone to create smallbusiness website and teach ownerto manage site. Contact979-324-6861 or sundownfarmi-sawesome@gmail.com.

Part-Time helper for draft depart-ment, 20hrs/wk, flexible schedule.Pre-employment drug screen.Apply at Jack Hilliard DistributingCo., 1000 Independence Ave.,Bryan.

Part-time summer help, apply inperson, Conlee-Garrett Movingand Storage, 600 South BryanAve., Bryan.

PT leasing agent, Saturdays amust. Call 979-693-1906.

Stoney Creek Ranch Christiancamp, in New Ulm, TX is hiringenergetic college-aged studentswho have a love for Christ.Needed Spring and Summer 2013.Must be willing to serve, makepositive impact on others, be en-thusiastic and be fully involved inthe fun-filled camp experience,and create safe and supportiveenvironment for all user-groups.Seeking candidates interested inbecoming ropes-course certifiedand/or lifeguard certified. Ifinterested, contact Michael Riedl,Camp Director,michael@stoneycreekranch.org,806-407-1945.

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2 male Yorkie puppies, 2-3lbs,4mo. old, $800, linda_d_54@ya-hoo.com, 979-324-2866.

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B/CS. Sell/Buy/Invest! MichaelMcGrann TAMU ‘93 CivilEngineering 979-739-2035,mike@aggierealtor.comNadia McGrann 979-777-6211,Town & Country Realty.

ROOMMATES

2 or 3 roommates needed for4bd/4ba apartment. Fully fur-nished with W/D. $475/mo in-cludes utilities. Contact Kendall atk_aggie14@neo.tamu.edu.

2-rooms available in 4bdrm homeoff of Graham. Female,non-partiers, mostly furnished.$450/mo. 903-456-6543.

Female roommate wanted,$499/mo utilities included, petswelcomed, call 281-380-8428.

Need female roommate, 4bd/3ba,2400sgft house, Dove Crossing,huge closet, $450/mo,713-516-2044.

Roommate wanted, $450/mo3bd/2ba condo, front parking,on A&M bus route, call713-858-1740.

Roommates needed 4bd/2bahome with large backyard andnew flooring. Pets welcome. Callif interested 361-463-6763.

Three roommates needed.4bed/2ba. 606 Abbey Lane. Col-lege Station, 77845. For more in-formation, 817-915-9258.

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A&M head coach Gary Blair leaves the court following the Aggies’ 71-45 first round NCAA tournament victory over Wichita State on Saturday in Reed Arena.

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if we can continue to figure out that formula. We’re going to play a very good and well-coached team tomorrow in Nebraska.”

Nebraska (24-8), a former Big 12 foe that joined the Big Ten in 2011, will face the Ag-gies for the first time since leaving both pro-grams’ former league. The Cornhuskers lead the all-time series against A&M 14-9, but the Aggies have won six of the past eight meet-ings, including an 84-49 win in Nebraska’s final year with the Big 12.

Bellock said Nebraska will be in for a tough

match against the surging Aggies, who have won four straight games.

“We are a very good team and we are very well-coached,” Bellock said. “I think we are very tough and we have a lot of keys and when everyone comes with the right mind frame and attitude, this team can be very good and very dangerous. If I was Nebraska, I wouldn’t want to play us.”

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swimming & divingAggies win pair of titles, place fourth at nationalsThe Texas A&M women’s swimming and diving team tied their highest finish in program history Saturday at the 2013 NCAA Championships, placing fourth. The Aggies finished with 323.5 points behind Georgia (477), California (393) and Tennessee (325.5). Behind Olympian junior Camille Adams’ first NCAA title, the Aggies surged to their seventh consecutive Top 10 team finish. Olympian junior Breeja Larson and Adams were the highlights of the meet for A&M, winning titles in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard butterfly, respectively.

Staff report

baseballA&M wins series over No. 6 Ole Miss, 2-1Texas A&M matched up against No. 6 Ole Miss on the road for a three game series from Friday to Sunday, scoring a 2-1 series win. After losing 8-2 Friday night and a rain delay on Saturday, A&M took advantage of sophomore Mitchell Nau’s two RBIs to secure a 2-1 win in the first game of the Sunday doubleheader. A&M’s offense came alive in the second game as the Aggies defeated the Rebels 10-6. Texas A&M moves to 17-8 (5-1 SEC) on the season and face UT-Arlington at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday in Blue Bell Park.

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No. 3 Texas A&M vs. No. 6 NebraskaThe Aggies face Nebraska in the second round of the NCAA tournament at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Reed Arena.

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